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Update: Its working. Off to kill robots...

I went to PS4's Playstation Store to buy the Automatron DLC for Fallout 4 a few moments ago, only to find a strange little error message: "This Content Cannot Be Selected At This Time." Just the sort of oblique error message that's somewhat akin to PSN throwing up its hands and shrugging. Apparently, I'm not alone: there's chatter about the error message all over Twitter, and Bethesda says that they're working with Sony on a fix:

"Sony is working to prop Automatron for the North American PlayStation Store. Will update as soon as we hear new information," the official Bethesda account recently tweeted. I've reached out to Sony and will update if I hear anything from that end.

A bit of a pain, but let's hope that Sony can get the thing figured out soon. Automatron begins what Bethesda has promised will be an exceptionally ambitious DLC schedule, featuring everything from entirely new environments, to new missions, to new features and sandbox changes that will permeate the rest of the game. Bethesda games are especially well-suited to DLC of all sorts: there's so much to do already that it seems like no trouble to just slide some more in. That's also their weakness, of course: any DLC needs to have some pretty big changes to bring you back, especially since most players haven't finished all the content that was available in the main game.